Word Meanings - TEEMLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth. Dryden.
Related words: (words related to TEEMLESS)
- EARTHLY-MINDED
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n. - EARTH FLAX
A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. - EARTHDIN
An earthquake. - EARTHSTAR
A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores. - EARTHBRED
Low; grovelling; vulgar. - PROLIFICATION
Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ. (more info) 1. The generation of young. - EARTHBANK
A bank or mound of earth. - EARTHQUAVE
An earthquake. - BARRENLY
Unfruitfully; unproductively. - EARTHDRAKE
A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding. - EARTHNUT
A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut. - EARTHEN
Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe. - EARTH SHINE
See EARTH - EARTHMAD
The earthworm. The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland. - BARRENWORT
An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family , having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific. - PROLIFICACY
Prolificness. - EARTHEN-HEARTED
Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. Lowell. - EARTH
OHG. erda, G. erde, Icel. jör, Sw. & Dan. jord, Goth. airpa, OHG. 1. The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling - EARTHBOARD
The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard. - EARTHWORK
Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, - UNEARTHLY
Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n. - UNFRUITFUL
Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n. - IMPROLIFICATE
To impregnate. Sir T. Browne. - MIDDLE-EARTH
The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak. - OVERFRUITFUL
Too fruitful. - YEARTH
The earth. "Is my son dead or hurt or on the yerthe felled" Ld. Berners.